Headline News - January 3, 2003

Nunavut
Okalik looks back on a mixed year
Frustration with Ottawa, but pride in Nunavut’s building efforts

Nunavut’s year of maturity
A look back at the year 2002

Boiler caused Repulse Bay fire

Crown stays Iqaluit murder charge

Nunavik
On the doorstep of a new future
2002 in Nunavik

Features
The spirit lives in Iqaluit and Nuuk
Arctic Winter Games a true test of Northern champions

Nunavik hosts grand conference
ICC comes to Kuujjuaq

In all her glory
Iqaluit welcomes her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Iqaluit
A year of pride and turmoil for Iqaluit
2002 in Iqaluit

Headline News - January 10, 2003

Nunavut
Violent police stand-off grips POV
One man injured, siege ends peacefully after 20 hours

Nunavut to send its first team to the Canada Winter Games
17 teens chosen to represent territory at national competition

Christmas cheer — without the beer
Sober but spirited celebrations keep crime level steady in Nunavut

GN allocates money for new courthouse
Justice department commits to replace former bank building, but what about a new jail?

Feisty Team Canada settles for silver

Nunavut Briefs

Lucie Idlout stars in Toronto play

Nunavut goose turns up in Scotland

Echo Bay charged in death of mine worker

Igloolik fire under investigation

Baffin businesses set trade show date

Rakin Inlet man charged with drug possession

Nunavik
Health board launches anti-smoking contest
Prizes used to lure Nunavimmiut into quitting

Booze-fueled holiday leads to more than 60 arrests
Charges range from sexual assault to public drunkenness

Features
A burning question
Taming Nunavut’s addiction to fossil fuels

Iqaluit
Task force to decide future of old arena
Residents asked to brainstorm ideas for financing Arnaitok Ipeelee Arena

Vandals feast on food bank donations
Computer equipment destroyed in pre-Christmas spree

Arctic
Bad spirits haunt Greenland bureaucrats

U.S. asks Denmark for NMD base at Thule

Nunavut nurse hunters comb Newfoundland

Headline News - January 17, 2003

Nunavut
Bathurst road and port on shaky ground, watchdog says
Huge Izok Lake project dropped from plan

GN seals new Nunavut fuel deals
Woodward, Shell Canada return to the eastern Arctic

Flames torch Clyde River fire hall
Fire chief saves $200,000 fire truck

Teck Cominco sued for $88 million in Alaskan ecological mess
Will Polaris face similar environmental concerns?

Flying among the stars
Unaalik Aviation pilots take wealthy tourists sightseeing to the South Pole

High Arctic teen takes a dip in Antarctic waters
Steve Amarualik represents Nunavut on Students on Ice Antarctic expedition

RCMP ceremony welcomes new leader
Outgoing chief actively recruited Inuit, Premier says

Kusugak still waiting for invitation to ministers’ health conference
ITK president, First Nations chief and Métis leader lobby Ottawa

Nunavut Briefs

Rangers to receive medals

Heritage department launches poster contest

Small northern airlines unsafe?

Nunavik
Beluga-debate season opens in Nunavik
KRG-organized meeting brings DFO and elders together

Kuujjuaq airport to see improvement by 2006?
Proposal one step closer to official approval

TNI to launch its own radio network
Plan would increase programming and financial freedom, broadcaster says

Features
Dawn of a new year
Amitturmiut celebrate return of the sun with a festival of light

Iqaluit
Council drops motion banning "undesirables"
Resolution would ban ex-cons, medical patients and nuisance relatives from becoming a burden on city

City moves ahead with smoking ban
Restaurants and coffee shops will soon be smoke-free

Order up

Are we there yet?
After four public consultations, city council may finally be ready to introduce a 20-year general plan

Iqaluit in 20 years

Iqaluit Briefs

Curley resigns

New CAO in town

City reviews transit study

Headline News - January 24, 2003

Nunavut
One in 10 Inuit live in the South, census shows
More than 5,000 live outside the Arctic

Akausisarvik offers patients a place to call home
Nunavut’s first 24-hour mental health facility a training ground for independent living

Iqaluit resident charged in international child porn investigation
Two-year probe nets 2,000 suspects across Canada

Greenland endures embarrassing political upheavals
Hans Enoksen is still Greenland’s premier, but only as the head of a shaky new coalition

Manley consults Nunavut leaders on federal budget
Makes no promises to spend more in the North

Izok not needed for Kitikmeot road-port, backers say
Proponents say Bathurst project still needed to develop region’s economy

Qikiqtani residents recognized for bravery and compassion

The masked shrew and other mammals you didn’t know about
New book helps students discover what the land has to offer

Nunavut Briefs

Kunuk made officer of Order of Canada

Nunavut boosters go bullish in Boston

Dial CLEY for dollars

Canadian Arctic researchers in need

Diamond exploration continues

Snowmobiling dangerous, report says

Seals hit by climate change

Inquest into inmate’s death begins next week

Fire destroys Kugluktuk business

In The Courts

You will lose it all, judge warns taxi drivers caught bootlegging

Iqaluit man faces child pornography charges

If the ring fits

Nunavik
Climate change erodes Inuit knowledge, researches say
Change in weather, change in health

Police nab $22,000 in contraband
Chief credits anonymous tip line

Nunavimmiut to learn curator’s trade at French museum
Avataq partners with Museum of Natural History in France to mount training program, Inuit art exhibit

Features
In the bank
The Canada Council’s Art Bank has $100,000 to spend on Inuit art — your work could be chosen

Underwater adventures
Marine biologist Kathy Conlan has turned her Arctic and Antarctic experiences into a learning tool for kids

Iqaluit
Ratepayers reluctant to finance city’s debt proposition
Iqaluit needs $4 million or deal with GN may fall through

Iqaluit residents demonstrate for world peace
Peace march draws 150 residents on cold winter day

Rick Butler reflects
Iqaluit’s CAO has tackled the big to-do list and is ready to move on

Co-op proponents seek building permit
Razing of the Toonoonik Hotel brings co-op store one step closer

Headline News - January 31, 2003

Nunavut
Ottawa must spend on training to comply with land claim, NTI says
Inuit employment rates in government are falling

Language law fails Inuit, Francophones, Nunavummiut say
End of year-long review process draws near

Water board to Breakwater: Pay up or else
Nanisivik water licence could be cancelled, NWB warns

Engineers test military helicopter in Iqaluit airspace
Aircraft ordered by eight NATO countries

Workshop aims to make family part of the solution
Building strength through traditional knowledge and healing

Territories could receive extra money for health care
Premiers agree per capita funding not enough for northern regions

Jury recommends more training for caseworkers
Teen hanged himself in transitional home

GN tests for trichinosis infection in walrus tongues
Repulse Bay animals used in pilot project

Baffin Regional Youth Council prepares for AGM

Nunavik
Framework agreement possible for Valentine’s Day
Nunavik self-government proposal proceeds through federal bureaucracy

Two men drown in Inukjuak
Snowmobile crashes through thin ice

Leaf Bay ready to claim highest tides
Too close to call, DFO says

One new member elected to Tourism Association board
Annanack beats incumbent by one vote

Features
Polar opposites
Singer/songwriter Lucie Idlout casts aside her angry rocker persona to play the demure Akatingwah in Two Words for Snow

"We had no mirror in our igloo"
Oblate missionary’s photos depict the rapid change in Inuit lifestyle in the 1950s

Iqaluit
City Council brings back the bus
Successful test run proves Iqaluit has a viable market for public transportation

Youth crime increased by 60 per cent in 2002
RCMP officer calls trend "very disturbing"

Blue Dome feeling the blues
Future of popular QIA youth centre in the hands of board members after seven successful but bumpy months

Hammering it out
Shy but dedicated carpentry students build a better future for all women

Smoking bylaw gets first reading
Ban would target restaurants and coffee shops, but not bars

Labour to dissect Nunavut rights bill
Union officials to hold public discussions in Iqaluit

New gear for firefighters

Arctic
Qaanaaq won’t help hunters anymore

Supiaq Inuit usher in 2003 with a big bash

Alaska sees less ice than before

Cold winter kills in Moscow

China to build research station on Svalbard Islands

To Greenland in a raft?

Iceland’s Thule beer uses Vikings for promo